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Richard Skolnik, MPA Richard Skolnik is a Lecturer in Global Health at The George Washington University where he teaches undergraduate courses in global health and supervises graduate student MPH projects. Richard also works as an independent consultant engaged in program design and evaluation activities in a number of areas of global health, including HIV, TB, and nutrition. He also edits New & Noteworthy in Nutrition. Until November 2008, Richard was the Vice President for International Programs at the Population Reference Bureau. Earlier, he served as the Executive Director of the Harvard School of Public Health PEPFAR program for AIDS treatment in Botswana, Nigeria, and Tanzania. From 2001 to 2004, Richard was The Director of the Center for Global Health at The George Washington University. Richard worked at the World Bank from 1976 to 2001, last serving as the Director for Health and Education for South Asia. His work at the World Bank focused on health systems development, family planning and reproductive health, child health, the control of communicable diseases, and nutrition in low-income countries. He was deeply engaged in work on India with TB, leprosy, and cataract blindness control that have been cited as important public health successes. Richard was involved in establishing STOP TB and served three rounds on the Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund. He has led major evaluations of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, the Global Alliance to Eliminate Leprosy, and the World Bank’s work on HIV in Russia. Richard has served, among others, on advisory groups and faculty for the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the development of a women’s health program at Harvard University, and to the World Health Organization. He is also on the Advisory Board for the College of Health Services at the George Mason University and actively involved in initiatives in global health of the Yale School of Public Health. Richard is the author of an undergraduate textbook, Essentials of Global Health, published in 2007. Richard received a BA from Yale and an MPA from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. |
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